Despite the statement that "Milosevich is a
dictator", repeated by the Western mass media like a
mantra, Yugoslavia is a parliamentary democracy. That is
the plain, simple truth. The Yugoslav government is able
to govern because it has a parliamentary majority. In the
last election the government increased its parliamentary
strength.

Today, mobs brought to Belgrade by the democratic
opposition parties (DOS) attacked the Parliament
building, burning part of it. They sacked and looted the
Socialist Party headquarters. They destroyed the Serbian
Television station, RTS, the same station that NATO
bombed last year. And they attacked ordinary citizens.

The burning of parliament and the sacking of Belgrade
property along with attacks and threats against citizens
who don't support the opposition, confirm our worst
fears. The violent measures we have witnessed this week,
the presence of a violent mob, brought into Belgrade,
coupled with copious bribes for those who switch sides to
DOS - these are intended to destroy the legal framework
of Yugoslavia. The goal is to install a US-controlled
government in power. No wonder Secretary of State
Albright is cheering. These are her kind of democrats.

DOS, and its handlers in Washington and Bonn, were
never interested in electing Mr. Kostunica President.
That's why the Western and Yugoslav
"independent" media started charging that
Milosevich would "surely" steal the election
weeks before elections took place. In other words, for
DOS and the West, the crucial thing was not to win, but
to cry "Fraud!" and then stage provocations.

If DOS simply wanted to win the Presidency, why didn't
they embrace the runoffs? After all, Kostunica had a 10%
lead. One reason DOS didn't want to participate is that
they were worried about the 40% of the electorate that
abstained in round one. Most of these people are
nationalists, firmly opposed to NATO. Under no
circumstances would they vote for DOS which they see as
connected to NATO. So Kostunica could well lose a runoff
election.

But this was not the main reason DOS boycotted the
runoffs. Their main concern was that the Yugoslav
President has no power unless he is backed by a
parliamentary majority. DOS lost the Parliamentary
elections. Absent terror and massive bribery, the DOS
forces in parliament are a minority. The goal of DOS, as
planned in Washington and Bonn, was not to defeat
Milosevich for President. It was to overthrow the
democratic will of the Yugoslav people - to destroy the
entire parliamentary system.

We have documented NATO's close ties with DOS. Indeed,
NATO has demonstrated these ties in many ways, not least
of all by the US government flooding Yugoslavia with
millions of dollars in bribe money. Without that money
DOS would be a cipher.

The U.S. government plans to apply the most severe
economic shock treatment to Yugoslavia. This has been
openly admitted by Mr. Dinkic, the chief economist for
DOS:

The shock therapy approach was spelled out in law
HR1064, passed by the US House of Representatives a day
after the elections. This law granted an additional 105
million to be shared between the pro-NATO government of
Montenegro ($55 million US) and the leaders of the DOS
($50 million.) Meanwhile money is pouring into the
coffers of DOS,

"sometimes in direct aid, sometimes in
indirect aid like computers and broadcasting
equipment, and sometimes in suitcases of cash carried
across the border between Yugoslavia and Hungary or
Serbia and Montenegro." ('NY Times

HR 1064 also ordered the most draconian economic and
political "reforms" for Yugoslavia. It ordered
the breakup of Serbia into separate mini-states. It
ordered the imposition of complete
"democratization", that is, the adoption of all
measures demanded by the US. It ordered Yugoslav forces
to hunt down anyone NATO decides to accuse of war crimes.

The violent economic "adjustment" and
political destruction mandated by HR1064 and outlined in
the DOS' own program are an attempt to crush Yugoslavia
as a force capable of resisting US domination of the
Balkans. Instead, Yugoslavia is to be turned into an
impoverished territory, a colony.

These measures cannot be implemented unless NATO has
full control of the Yugoslav government including the
army and police. The other alternative, invading a
Yugoslavia run by a hostile government, is politically
unfeasible for NATO .

Therefore the DOS has used the charge of
"election fraud," endlessly repeated but never
accompanied by evidence, as an excuse to boycott the
runoffs. In contrast, nothing is said about the fraud
involved in the US financing of every aspect of DOS
activity. The import of vast quantities of US bribe money
is an attack on Yugoslav sovereignty no less than last
year's bombing campaign. Using the veneer of protesting
election fraud, the "democrats" are mobilizing
all possible forces in an attempt to seize power by
force. These include pro-fascist Croatians and pro-KLA
Albanians who are the hard core supporters of the
pro-NATO Djukanovic government in Montenegro. They
include secessionists from the Serbian province of
Vojvodina and southern Serbia. They include young people
who have been driven into unemployment as a result of
NATO economic sanctions and who are lured into a movement
with the illusion that this will provide a future. They
include people bribed by a taste of the vast sums of
money the US has pumped into Yugoslavia especially in the
past two weeks, and people who have been fooled by the
massive, US funded campaign, by "independent"
media, public relations firms and election pollsters,
into believing that their falling living standards,
caused by sanctions just as severe as those imposed on
Iraq, are the "fault of one man - Milosevich"
and that the US-backed opposition will bring prosperity.
In fact they would bring the prosperity of the grave.

Because the truth is that countries like Bulgaria and
Russia which have swallowed the "democratic "
bait are far poorer than Yugoslavia - even though they
are not suffering from sanctions. and were not yet bombed

The scenario is much like what occurred in Chile in
1973.. There was the same sort of disruption of
transportation and essential services including
electricity. There was the same effort to create the
appearance of a majority movement against Chilean Pres.
Allende.. Events were staged which a captive media
misdescribed as popular protest, giving ordinary people
the impression that Allende was about to fall. At the
same time, the CIA-directed plan deprived the people of
basic necessities, causing real unrest. In Yugoslavia,
the disruption of the supply of essential commodities
started before the election with a US-instigated rise in
the price of bread

Under cover of disruption and "popular
protest" the CIA overthrew President Salvador
Allende and installed a pro-US military junta headed by
General Augusto Pinochet.

The strikes which crippled transport and food
distribution in Chile were funded by the CIA. The same is
being attempted right now in Yugoslavia. Vast sums of US
tax payers money has been poured into opposition coffers
in Serbia. We know of $182 million. But this is only what
is officially admitted. What about CIA money, which the
New York Times says is going into Serbia "in
suitcases full of cash"? What about money from the
Soros Foundation and other CIA-connected
"charities"? This money is being used to
finance the miners' strike and to lure young people into
the Western-created group Otpor by giving them money and
trinkets, like cellular phones. .

Of course, many Yugoslav people are disgruntled. One
striking miner told the 'NY Times': "I used to make
$1500 a month. Now I make $80." Why wouldn't he be
disgruntled? But who is to blame? The 'independent' media
in Yugoslavia, funded by the US government, blame the
government that is resisting US control.

This is nonsense.

The problem started in 1989. At that time a World Bank
plan was put into effect in Yugoslavia. It was overseen
by Veselin Vukotic, presently a leading member of G-17, a
DOS group. This plan liquidated over a thousand Yugoslav
business, devastating the economy. Further harm was done
by the wars of secession and economic sanctions, imposed
on Yugoslavia by the U.S. and German governments.

The Yugoslav government is routinely accused of being
dictatorial. But it has tolerated the organization and
funding by the West of a web of Fifth Column
organizations and media in Yugoslavia. Millions of
dollars have gone into these "civil society"
organizations. Funding is channeled through the National
Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, the USIA, the CIA
and the Soros Foundation, among others. Thousands of
Yugoslavs are on their payrolls. An entire
"alternate" media has been set up with the
latest equipment and high salaries. These organizations
and mass media take advantage of the very problems
created by US and German policies to sow resentment
towards those who have resisted US and German policies.

The US effort to destroy Yugoslavia dates back at
least as far as 1984. At that time a U.S. National
Security Decision Directive NSDD133 was issued. Entitled
"United States Policy Toward Yugoslavia," it
was labeled "SECRET - SENSITIVE". Recently it
was declassified. It is a prescription for destroying
Yugoslavia as an economic and political entity.

Since the elections on 24 September, the Democratic
opposition has met with NATO officials in Sofia,
Bulgaria. NATO Assistant Secretary General Paul Klaiber
was in Sofia and Bucharest for high level discussions on
security issues resulting from the elections. Barely
reported in the media, an IMF donors' conference was held
behind closed doors, Two leading "democratic"
representatives presented their so-called "Letter of
Intent", a plan for imposing harsh economic measure
on Yugoslavia, to their IMF and World Bank leaders. And
on the 4th of October, the Stability Pact for
Southeastern Europe was meeting under its so-called
"Title III" which pertains to "security
issues." The elections and "transition" in
Yugoslavia were on the agenda. All these meetings were in
Bulgaria. The press reports do not confirm that the two
"democratic: representatives stayed for the lot of
them, but we suspect they did..

The ploy being employed now is to create chaos while
dangling promises of prosperity and an end to strife - if
the DOS comes to power.

In order to create chaos, a variety of groups have
been mobilized. Some of the people who've gotten involved
in the disturbances are ordinary people, tired of the
constant attacks on Yugoslavia, seduced into the false
belief that DOS will solve Yugoslavia's problems. We say
'seduced' and 'false belief' because Yugoslavia is not
the problem. It is the U.S. and Germany and their need to
crush the Yugoslav loyalists as a political force. One
cannot solve the problem of persecution by giving in to
the persecutor.

As we said, some of the people involve in the
disturbances have been seduced, but not all. Others are
secessionists from various parts of Yugoslavia, or
fascists. These people have an agenda that requires the
break-up of Yugoslavia. Some are former Communist Party
functionaries who hope that under a NATO regime they may
return to the life of leisure they enjoyed before 1989.
Some are under orders from their superiors or powerful
political bosses to participate in demonstrations. And
some are infiltrators from the NATO armed forces,
especially from Montenegro.

Chaos creation is intended to terrorize Yugoslav
loyalists while creating the impression of popular
revolt. We have received reports that early this week DOS
activists went around Belgrade, threatening to kill
anyone who voted in the Sunday runoff elections. And of
course today we have witnessed the worst violence so far,
which has created a state of terror in Belgrade.

Meanwhile NATO war ships are in the Adriatic. British
SAS special forces are training paramilitary police in
Montenegro to assassinate Yugoslav army officers. Western
money pays for both the training and the paramilitaries.

What we are witnessing is nothing less than an attempt
to install a fascist-like government in Yugoslavia, to
remake Yugoslavia in the image of Kosovo. Yugoslavia has
stood up to the biggest bully in history, the US
government. Now it is time for all who oppose the
creation of a US/German dominated world empire to stand
up for Yugoslavia.

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